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Text disappears when typing in text box

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June 17, 2021
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I'm getting this issue where when I make any changes to text within a text box, like typing within it, cutting/pasteing, editing, etc. the text disappears. Sometimes it'll come back if I click out of the text box. Sometimes it comes back if I switch between normal and preview mode.

It doesn't happen every time, but often enough to be incredibly annoying.

I'm running:

Mac OS 11.4
Macbook Air M1 2020
InDesign 16.2.1

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Correct answer Rocky5D5C

Hi Sarah, updating to 17.2 fixed the text issue for my wife. She hasn't had it happen once since then, so far.

Have you updated?

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Fearless_artist5E5A

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Big update today. 17.0.

wonder if they listened.

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tomk66335482

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I'm using the Imac 2021 M1 and Indesign 16.4.
It seems like a visual glitch, that the text in Indesig is simply disappearing. It comes back by scrolling in and out – but this kills every workflow. The problem is so grave, that I had to abandon work and use my old macbook – please help @adobe

jmlevy

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Turn off GPU in the preferences

mirkon34893792

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I am having the same issue.

I'm running:

Mac OS 11.6
Macbook Air M1 2020
InDesign 16.4

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roberteblesse

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This is ridiculous! Adobe InDesign 16.4 has become unusable for me because any text I add to a document disappears and I must scroll up or down or readjust the textbox to get it to reappear. This has been going on for quite a while and it doesn't seem that Adobe is responding very well to the complaints people have about it. I'm going to have to install an earlier version of InDesign so I can work without this extremely annoying problem. The upgrade to 16.4 certainly hasn't fixed it!

Running: MacOs 11.5.2

Macbook Air M1 2020

Indesign 16.4

SteveP56

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I quite agree. It’s almost unbelievable that Adobe’s way of managing this serious problem is to ignore it. Apart from the odd message from a developer, there has been nothing; no acknowledgement of the huge problem this is causing. Ensuring that Indesign is never running alongside any other Adobe programme seems to be a workaround, but it is not a fix. We need to be able to use all the suite together. A I have said previously, and as others have commented, this is what Quark did way back – and it became their undoing.

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Loney06

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I'm having the same problem. Running 16.4 in InDesign. I have the MacBook Pro M1 13inch. It's super frustrating because I cannot edit when my type keeps disappearing. I am hoping a new update will happen soon that will fix this issue??

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Ronale0D4D

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One thing I've noticed that helps is when I restart my computer, the text will stop disappearing for a couple of days. I'm not sure what that has to do with anything, but it is effective. I quit out of InDesign, restart my computer and then reopen InDesign. Unfortunately, after two or three days, the text starts disappearing again, and I have to reboot. But, at least I can work!

kamielk19930890

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I have the same problem

OS 11.6

M1 processor

Indesign 16.4

I have this problem now for more than 6 months

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ubergreg

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It's very odd that Adobe hasn't formally acknowledged that this is an issue, or made any progress on it, even though it's been afflicting M1 Mac owners for months. The conditions under which the disappearing text occurs is, by many accounts, quite common and easily replicable.

This isn't a randomly occuring problem for users of M1 Macs; it literally happens every single time we edit text, and editing/laying out text is arguably the point of InDesign. This has had a disastrous effect on our daily workflows, of which InDesign is our main tool. Constantly zooming/scrolling/switching viewing modes is not a solution when you're typsetting/editing a 120-page document. This is doubly painful, because we are dutifully paying our subscriptions every month...

Adobe: do not be Quark. I was there when Quark got complacent and people switched away to InDesign. I have since purchsed a copy of Affinity Publisher and not only is it more stable and snappier than InDesign at the moment, it is fully optimised for the M1 architecture. A workflow switch would be painful, and I really like using InDesign, but I'm not sure Adobe realises how incredibly broken and unuseable it is right now. InDesign's fundamental raison d'être seems indefinitely kneecapped.

Adobe, please make this a priority.

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Ronale0D4D

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I am having the same problem, and I'm to the point where I'm not sure if I can use this program any longer. EVERY TIME I type something, all the text disappears. Then, I have to scroll down the page and back up to make the text reappar. I simply can't get my work done. I reported this problem a month ago, and I was told to upgrade to the latest version, which I did. It fixed the problem for a day, and then it started happening again, although only once in a while. Now it is EVERY TIME! What is Adobe going to do about fixing this problem?